Re: [Sigia-l] Password usability
Skot Nelson <[email protected]>
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I would certainly point out it's baslessness (no evidence) but the real point is the one you've made: nothing requires users to use special characters in your example. -- Skot Nelson [email protected] twitter. penguinstorm On 2010-12-10, at 15:11, Andrew Boyd <[email protected]> wrote: > Skot, > > I'm confused. Are you saying that you would not challenge the baseless > assumption by the IT security person? Is this a "he said, she said" > argument that is not worth having? > > Cheers, Andrew > > On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 7:28 AM, Skot Nelson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Dec-10-2010, at 12:04 , Andrew Boyd wrote: >> >>> I'd be >>> spinning this one around and asking your IT security colleague to >>> supply some research. So many organisations get into trouble because >>> of baseless IT security voodoo - >> >> While this is true, starting a he said she said argument usually doesn't get you very far. >> >> Jayson's original point about the difference between *allowing* characters and *requiring* characters is really quite reasonable. >> -- >> Skot Nelson >> [email protected] >> >> "In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when >> there is no longer anything to add, but when there >> is no longer anything to take away." >> -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > -- > --- > Andrew Boyd > http://uxbookclub.org -- connect, read, discuss ------------ 2011 IA Summit March 30 - April 3, 2011 Pre Conference Seminars: March 30-31 IA Summit: April 1-3 Hyatt Regency Convention Center Denver, CO ----- When replying, please *trim your post* as much as possible. *Plain text, please; NO Attachments Searchable Archive at http://www.info-arch.org/lists/sigia-l/ ________________________________________ Sigia-l mailing list -- post to: [email protected] Changes to subscription: http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigia-l